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Subject: Effective playing or just being a wuss... or both?
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Okay everyone here's the deal:

I love playing Halo with my friends for obvious reasons. The carnage, the yelling, the look on peoples faces when I kill them for the 3rd time at their own base. Its so much fun as I'm sure many of you know. I always played Halo with, at the most, 5 other people until I found others to play with. I must say a 16 person CTF always gets my blood going. Well, anyway... I played Halo on the internet and found that to be just as much fun, if not more fun with the extra weapons, maps and the fact I can't here whining from people when I kill them for the 4th time on their own base with a flamethrower. Well, here's my point of discussion.

The other day this guy I used to know said him and his friends formed a team and wanted to know if my friends and I would play against them. I said no problem. First we played a CTF, flag must be at home to score game, at Wizard. My team won 10- 4 with surprising quickness (surprising because the other team assured us of their skill) Finally, we played the same game but at Blood Gutch. This is how I learned of their "skill". First, they managed to get hold of both tanks, (thanks to my friend who believes he's immune to rockets) and hid them in the cave closest to the red base. They jammed them in their so they couldnt get out. Next, (after some moderate scoring on my team's account) they hid the rest of the vehicles on top of the hill behind the red base (in case you haven't guessed, they were red team). Finally, all they used was the pistol. That's the only weapon they were good with. If you got close enought to use the rifles or shotgun, you were the obvious winner. But that was rare because they only used pistols.

First, it takes all the fun away from the game. If you sit in my base and kill me over and over with the rocket, thats okay. If you block my base entrances, thats cool. If you block my teleporters, thats also fine. But to use the pistol ( which I'll say Bungie can bite my ass for that weapon) over and over and think you're a halo god, is pathetic. I'd get more fairness with a 15 VS me game. So, my question to the masses, you, is this:

Is this a good way to play the game? Yes, results are there. But am I the only one that thinks it saps all the fun out of Halo? Just something to think about. Thanks in advance for your comments.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 12:55:14 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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First this goes in a different fourm.

Second any team who uses only pistols can be counted to be bad at most other weapons, meaning yes I suppose you could call one a wuss.

  • 06.13.2004 12:55 PM PDT
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It's not a good way to play, but you should have stopped them from getting all the vehicles, especially the Ghosts.

[Edited on 6/13/2004 12:58:57 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 12:57 PM PDT
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the pistol is the best gun in halo. It also takes the most skill. once you learn how to use it correct. you are god. vehicles take no skill. they are cheap kills and easy at that. so i dont find anythign wrong with what they did.

  • 06.13.2004 12:57 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

whatever man.thats a -blam!- way to play. if they think theyre so good,why dont they challenge you in close quarters??

  • 06.13.2004 12:57 PM PDT
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If you sit in my base and kill me over and over with the rocket, thats okay
NO IT ISN'T, that is the wussyest tactic on earth. Spawn killing is the bane of my existance online. All that happens is "oh i'm alive, oh wait now i'm dead thanks to some camper with a rocket launcher. I hate spawn killers and there should be some way to prevent tis happening in futher games!

  • 06.13.2004 12:58 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

be quiet shoemaker.[sarcasm]yeah it takes real skill to shoot someone 4 time with a pistol with the aid of the scope[/sarcasm] .id say without the pistol,you probably suck ass

[Edited on 6/13/2004 1:00:25 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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go post in the library

  • 06.13.2004 1:01 PM PDT
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PErsonally i love sniping, and the pistol is my favored secondary weapon. Call it cheap, camping, whatever. Sorry to say it, but Bungie made the pistol how it is for a reason. All is fair in love, war, and Halo.

  • 06.13.2004 1:02 PM PDT
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i wasnt trying to flame anyone... but o well...and i dont see how vehicles are the way to play it, or shotguns and stuff. if its in the game thoguh .. its fair.

  • 06.13.2004 1:02 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

a real Halo player can defend himself in close quarters and all other situations,and not have to camp with the rocket launcher on top of the health pack with an over shield just to get a couple kills,or use the pistol all through the match. and u call yourselves Halo gods. *spits*

[Edited on 6/13/2004 1:03:27 PM]

  • 06.13.2004 1:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nedus
a real Halo player can defend himself in close quarters and all other situations,and not have to camp with the rocket launcher on top of the health pack with an over shield just to get a couple kills,or use the pistol all through the match. and u call yourselves Halo gods. *spits*


Give me a sniper rifle or even a pistol, i'll take care of either of those 'gods'. If they were all using pistols, you should have taken the fight to your terf. Theres always a way to counter in Halo, we have balance to thank for that.

  • 06.13.2004 1:05 PM PDT
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Tank campers are annoying.......that's when the sniper rifle comes in handy.

  • 06.13.2004 1:08 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

yeah i know.i snipe sometimes,and i do use the pistol sometimes,but the difference between me and them is that i dont use those two weapons throughout the entire match. i prefer the shotgun and AR,but i love to snipe,so i do that every so often and snipe a few guys,then i drop it.

  • 06.13.2004 1:12 PM PDT
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dont give people crap if you do it too. I didnt even say i used it constantly. so calm down. I dont use AR or shotguns because of how unaccurate they are and they dont have long range at all.

  • 06.13.2004 1:14 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

tank campers are annoying,but very easy targets.theyre nothing more than an annoyance

  • 06.13.2004 1:14 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Posted by: shoemaker32
dont give people crap if you do it too. I didnt even say i used it constantly. so calm down. I dont use AR or shotguns because of how unaccurate they are and they dont have long range at all.


i use them,ill admit,but not exclusively.and if you were a true "Halo god", you would be able to make do with their inaccuracy at long range.is that the only way you get kills?? long range?? can defend yourself in close quarters??

  • 06.13.2004 1:16 PM PDT
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in that case no one is halo god. because not many peope carry around shotguns if they no what theyre doing and dont have their head up their ass. and why make due when you can just grab a pistol. and you said i seem like the person who would suck ass without a pistol

  • 06.13.2004 1:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: shoemaker32
in that case no one is halo god. because not many peope carry around shotguns if they no what theyre doing and dont have their head up their ass. and why make due when you can just grab a pistol. and you said i seem like the person who would suck ass without a pistol


Have you ever played 8vs 8 LAN? SOmetimes its nto so easy as to just pick up a pistol. WIth lots of people, your choice array of weaponry isnt too plump.

  • 06.13.2004 1:26 PM PDT
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Well, it's not really that unfair, seeing as how it takes much practice to learn to use it properly, so I think that if you got the skill to use it, more power to ya!!! Why didn't they also holster a shotgun with it? They would be nearly unstoppable if they used the right tactics.

Oh, by the way, this belongs in The Maw.

  • 06.13.2004 1:29 PM PDT